Nearly 30 years after its conception in 1989 and six years since ground was first broken, the Long Now Foundation has begun installing the monumental 10,000 year clock at its designated location in West Texas, on land owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon. The clock is designed to run for ten millennia without any required…

Filmmaker Alexandros Maragos has created an absolutely gorgeous timelapse showcasing the evolving beauty of Athens, Greece from overhead and at night. In addition to the sleek urban style and rich history, Margaros has captured the natural beauty of the city in its surrounding, hills, valleys and mountains along with the stunning sight of rain storm….

A post shared by Joshua Smith (@joshua_smith_street_artist) on Jan 28, 2018 at 4:29pm PST Artist Joshua Smith, who creates miniature scale models of abandoned buildings from urban settings, has made one such replication of the now-defunct Discolandia Record Store in San Francisco. Discolandia had been a Mission District mainstay since 1972, but rising rents and…

In 2016, we wrote about Japanese artist Chie Hitotsuyama and her magnificent animal sculptures made from rolled strips of newspaper. In 2018, Great Big Story caught up with the artist who spoke firsthand about her family background with paper, her inspiration to recreate these incredible creatures and how she goes about doing so. In her…

When one of their two beautiful cats, Chacha and Lilly had a bit of difficulty adjusting to her new home in Taipei, Taiwan, designerSzuti Tsai and her partner tried to find a way to make the cat comfortable in a manner that worked with their own aesthetic. After trying a number of different cardboard products,…

Pixel artist Gustavo Viselner has created a wonderful series of video game stule pixel art prints featuring scenes from popular movies and television shows. They are available to purchase from his myPixelFriends Etsy shop. via Neatorama

Dinosaur is a dramatic animated short film drawn and told by a 4-year-old boy, Nathan Mezquida, and animated by his father Allen Mezquida. Nathan did an amazing job of telling a story about dinosaurs with lots of facts and enthusiasm. This is an animated dinosaur drama drawn and told by my four year old son….